Informatics

The goal of health informatics systems is to enable smooth transfer of data and cybersecurity across the healthcare enterprise. This includes patient information, images, subspecialty reporting systems, lab results, scheduling, revenue management, hospital inventory, and many other health IT systems. These systems include the electronic medical record (EMR) admission discharge and transfer (ADT) system, hospital information system (HIS), radiology picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), archive solutions including cloud storage and vendor neutral archives (VNA), and other medical informatics systems.

How Konica Minolta’s next generation, cloud-based enterprise imaging is powering one practice’s growth
Finding the right enterprise imaging system is critical for radiology practices and hospitals that need to expand and scale their image management and reading capacity. For Houston Northwest Radiology Association, a large increase in the volume of images they manage for clients means it’s time to commit to a next-gen EI system.
ACR offers resources to achieve radiology AI best practices
Dana Smetherman, MD, CEO of the American College of Radiology, explains resources available through its Data Science Institute to evaluate and validate the quality of imaging algorithms.
PHOTO GALLERY: Examples of FDA-cleared AI in radiology
This is a photo gallery of artificial intelligence products cleared for clinical use in medical imaging by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Radiology by far is the leader of all clinical AI FDA approvals.
Alabama security breach exposes personal information of cardiologists, heart patients
Both patients and physicians were impacted by the incident, with outside forces gaining access to everything from names and social security numbers to banking information.
Cardiology still a leader in healthcare AI, trailing only radiology in FDA-cleared algorithms
At its current rate, the number of clinical AI models cleared by the FDA will break 1,000 before the end of 2024. Cardiology continues to play a significant role in this ongoing trend.

Cardiologists partner with imaging AI specialists to improve care for high-risk heart patients

The new collaboration is designed to ensure patients who may face an increased risk of heart disease receive the follow-up care they need.

February 29, 2024

doctor examines patient data on their tablet

New American College of Cardiology registry focuses on data from outpatient ambulatory surgical centers

The ACC launched its latest registry knowing that volumes at these outpatient facilities are expected to rise in the years ahead.

February 13, 2024

Best in KLAS 2024: New rankings for cardiovascular information systems, hemodynamic solutions

Hospital end users ranked the CVIS and hemodynamic systems they use, shedding light on their working relationships with IT vendors.

February 8, 2024

Sectra's packed booth at RSNA 2023. Sectra again won the Best in KLAS 2024 awards as the best vendor to work with for for both large and small sized radiology PACS.

Best in KLAS 2024 rankings released, showcasing medical imaging IT systems

End-users of various radiology IT systems offer their assessment of the software they use in the annual KLAS Research 2024 Best in KLAS report.

February 7, 2024

RSNA-sponsored imaging informatics course returns for 2024

The National Imaging Informatics Course is designed for fourth-year radiology residents, but is also relevant to any mid- or senior-level professional working with image data.

January 18, 2024

Monique Rasband, KLAS vice president of strategy and research for imaging, cardiology and oncology, shares the trends she is seeing with the use of cloud storage in medical imaging.

Cloud image storage for radiology is a growing trend in healthcare

Monique Rasband, KLAS vice president of strategy and research for imaging, shares the trends she is seeing in the specialty.

November 13, 2023

Video of Patrick McGill, MD, explaining how Community Health Network in Indiana eliminated more than 5 million nuisance alerts.

Indiana hospitals reduce nuisance alerts by 77% with medication decision support software

"Changing just six alerts in the system knocked out about 5 million alerts annually," explained Patrick McGill, MD, executive vice president and chief transformation officer at CHN.

November 6, 2023

Video interview with Jom Kimerle from Pure Storage who shares trends in healthcare cybersecurity. #HIMSS

Trends and tips in healthcare cybersecurity

Cybersecurity in the healthcare sector has been a growing concern, and medical imaging is one of the largest users of off-site cloud data storage.

October 19, 2023

Informatics

How Konica Minolta’s next generation, cloud-based enterprise imaging is powering one practice’s growth

ACR offers resources to achieve radiology AI best practices

PHOTO GALLERY: Examples of FDA-cleared AI in radiology

Alabama security breach exposes personal information of cardiologists, heart patients

Cardiology still a leader in healthcare AI, trailing only radiology in FDA-cleared algorithms